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fish

Meaning of “fish”

Sense 1: An aquatic animal. Sense 2: As a verb, to catch fish.

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35 occurrences31 verses16 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 1:26

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Nehemiah 13:16
There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Nehemiah 13:16 · retained source text

There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish and all maner of ware, and solde on the Sabbath vnto the children of Iudah, and in Ierusalem.

Job 41:7
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 41:7 · retained source text

Canst thou fill his skinne with barbed irons? or his head with fishspeares?

Psalms 8:8
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 8:8 · retained source text

The foule of the aire, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoeuer passeth through the paths of the seas.

Psalms 105:29
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 105:29 · retained source text

Hee turned their waters into blood: and slew their fish.

1611 marginal noteExod. 7.20.

Isaiah 19:10
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 19:10 · retained source text

And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluces and ponds for fish.

1611 marginal noteHeb. foundations.

1611 marginal noteHeb. of liuing things.

Isaiah 50:2
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 50:2 · retained source text

Wherefore when I came was there no man? when I called, was there none to answere? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeeme? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the sea: I make the riuers a wildernes: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

1611 marginal noteNum. 11.23. chap. 59.1.

1611 marginal noteExod. 14.21.

1611 marginal noteIosh.3.16

Jeremiah 16:16
¶ Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 16:16 · retained source text

¶ Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shal fish them, and after will I send for manie hunters, and they shall hunt them from euery mountaine, and from euery hill, and out of the holes of the rockes.

Ezekiel 29:4
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 29:4 · retained source text

But I will put hookes in thy chawes, and I will cause the fish of thy riuers to sticke vnto thy scales, and I will bring thee vp out of the middest of thy riuers, and all the fish of thy riuers shall sticke vnto thy scales.

Ezekiel 29:5
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 29:5 · retained source text

And I will leaue thee throwen into the wildernes, thee and all the fish of thy riuers: thou shalt fall vpon the open fields, thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I haue giuen thee for meat to the beastes of the field, and to the foules of the heauen.

1611 marginal noteHeb. face of the field.

Ezekiel 47:9
And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 47:9 · retained source text

And it shall come to passe, that euery thing that liueth, which mooueth, whithersoeuer the riuers shall come, shall liue, and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed, and euery thing shall liue whither the riuer commeth.

1611 marginal noteHeb. two riuers.

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